i was just poking around a few chinese sites rcently, and i came across the blog of maxzhou88 (the guy who posted a lot of the nanjing chinese rpg dumps on that weird ie-only site)...
as it turns out (as far as i can ascertain from google translations) he once worked for a taiwan-owned chinese company that developed a number of the "Super Game" FC pirate originals. and he's posted some stuff from the development of these games on his blog! including source codes, graphics, in-development ROMs and other stuff.

I never would have considered there were strict anti-piracy measures in effect over at piracy companies

I guess it sort of works either way, but did you perhaps mean to say "pirate companies" rather than "piracy companies"? It reads a little funny to me but maybe it's not as wrong as I thought when I started typing this response.

Oh this got frontpaged, awesome. something else i just noticed is the mention of Realtec, which is slightly interesting - that's the company that released a few mostly piss-poor unlicensed (but entirely original) Megadrive titles in the US, and i think at some point licensed some of Codemasters' stuff for asian release, but it seems like they were also somehow behind SuperGame.

Oh this got frontpaged, awesome. something else i just noticed is the mention of Realtec, which is slightly interesting - that's the company that released a few mostly piss-poor unlicensed (but entirely original) Megadrive titles in the US, and i think at some point licensed some of Codemasters' stuff for asian release, but it seems like they were also somehow behind SuperGame.

I noticed that too, and wondered if it was just coincidence. Does anyone want to take a look at their Mega Drive games and see if there are credits of any kind? Specific names might at least point us to a region. They feel like Eastern games to me, but I don't really know that.

well! i recently played through Balloon Boy for some reason (i say "played through", i cheated past most of it). and there are indeed credits, including one "Xue-Ren Song" who is mentioned as one of the taiwan staff in the blog post.

well! i recently played through Balloon Boy for some reason (i say "played through", i cheated past most of it). and there are indeed credits, including one "Xue-Ren Song" who is mentioned as one of the taiwan staff in the blog post.

Yeah, indeed.
Like this one. With "Lee Dan Fai" as "director" which is actually was the name of the former president of Taiwan R.O.C. from 1988. It is in Cantonese denotation form. Otherwise in Mandarin: "Lee Tang Hui".